Formspringing good fun.

On facebook earlier, I happened to come across www.formspring.me - from what I can gather, it's just a website that asks you questions at random, & allows your answers to be seen by others. It also lets other people (friends, or strangers) to ask you questions anonymously. I reckon it could be quite fun, especially as the questions it generates are so random. So, for funsies, I thought I'd do a few on here;

Q. What was your favorite movie as a child? 
A. Lady and the Tramp - hands down! Aside from the fact you can't beat a good Disney film (& the collection was extensive), Lady & the Tramp is just so lovely...But it seems so odd it's so old now! 

  
Q. What TV show do you wish would go off-air for good?
A. Erm...I guess it's too late to say Big Brother, so I think I'd have to go with the latest Kerry Katona TV 'thing'. I can't say I saw it, but the adverts & everything written about it seemed horrible. It really is car-crash telly. I think that the saddest part is watching someone go through such personal issues/problems/whatever, while being followed by a camera crew, in some misguided attempt to revive a career. The whole thing just makes me feel sad. 


Q. Do you believe there's intelligent life on other planets? 
A. I think it'd be pretty arrogant to believe that we (on earth) are the only things in the universe. I mean, the amazing & diverse range of living organisms we have on such a tiny planet does make you think that surely there must be some pretty amazing stuff elsewhere. 

Q. Are you more of a talker, or more of a listener? 
A. Wowee. Well...I think that it really depends on the person/situation. I guess I find it easier when I don't know someone very well to just ask them questions about themselves & listen to the answers - because everyone likes to talk about themselves, & it's the easiest way of making small talk! But when I really get to know people or just feel more at ease, I guess I do tend to chatter a bit more...


That's all I'm gonna do for now because dinner's ready! But it was pretty fun, I'd recommend :]


xo
 

Hop Farm Festival

Wow, not blogged in ages! But to be honest, it's because I either haven't had time (which leads to making notes of things to blog about on my phone...many, many lists!) & also because I've been a touch lazy on-line-wise recently. Been doing too much reading of other blogs & not enough maintenance of my own! Tsk. 
Anyway. 

This weekend just gone (the 2nd/3rd/4th) I went to Hop Farm Festival with The Boy, & a group of his friends. It was amazing! Although we only got tickets for the Saturday + camping, as opposed to Friday & Saturday, it didn't feel like we were missing out on anything! 
My trip of joy started on Thursday, when I went to Andover to see The Boy, and generally hang out slash be cooked for by his mum! Which was lush. I also discovered that although I'm shockingly shite at video games, Red Dead Redemption. is actually pretty fun! 

According to The Boy, it's a "sandbox game", which means the type of game where you just run around shooting things & doing missions - like playing in a sandbox, I suppose. 
 Although I didn't do any of the missions (aka couldn't, & didn't want to risk a temper tantrum by trying), it was pretty fun just riding around on the horse shooting people & finding different parts of the map, etc. 

And it looks pretty amazing.


But anyways! Back to my trip. 


So on Friday we went to the station & met everyone with all the bits & pieces, and got group-saver tickets to Paddock Wood which turned out to be a bargain! *Mental note - travel with four, or groups of four people in future! 
After a couple of hours traveling (car, train, train, bus) we arrived at the camp site & pitched the tents...another mental note is to never go camping ever again without one of these (although maybe not green...); 

After a night of strongbow-fulled fun times, it was was time for the music & shizz! 
 The lineup for the Saturday was (in reverse order); 
BOB DYLAN
RAY DAVIES
MUMFORD & SONS
SEASICK STEVE
PETER DOHERTY
LAURA MARLING
JOHNNY FLYNN
THE MAGIC NUMBERS
FOY VANCE


Foy Vance - Didn't see...Don't really know...not a lot to say!
The Magic Numbers - Saw the second half of their set, was really good! Really nice & chilled, bit of a sing-along going on in the crowd, was pretty nice yet mellow. 

Johnny Flynn - Erm...Didn't see...& honestly can't remember why! I have a feeling we were getting food. Which was pretty amazing, to be fair :]
Laura Marling - A lot better than I expected. I suppose this is because I thought that although I like a lot of her songs, I couldn't really imagine her performing live. She was really sweet though! Tried chatting with the audience a little, but seemed pretty awkward. Bless her. But I like that she tried. & the music was really good in that it really seemed to fit the summer-festival mood. Really nice way to warm up the day. 

Peter Doherty - I personally didn't see, as the sun was getting to me a bit & came over all funny...what a weeny. But from what I gather, he played some tunes & was generally okay. 
Seasick Steve - Highlight of the day. Absolutely amazing!! There aren't really words, apart from I think I'd like to marry him a little. Especially when during Mumford & Sons, the stage camera spotted his little head poking around the side of the stage, watching them! Too cute for words. And! His backdrop on stage was a blue flag, with a silhouette of himself, doing pretty much this pose (legend);

Mumford & Sons - Were really good, as expected. Played some real tunes that had pretty much everyone having a bit of a dance around, loving life! Great to sing along to at points as well. 

Ray Davies - Only saw the last couple of songs (due to more food-getting - fatties), but he seemed to be a really good live performer! When we were making our way back into the midst of the crowd, he really had everyone going which was really fun. He also had a couple of laughs with the crowd, & just put everyone in a really great mood! Which was almost a shame, seeing that he was followed by...

Bob Dylan - a bit of a disappointment. I think an article The Grandmother saved me from The Telegraph summed it up pretty well - "if attend expecting to hear the young man of Blonde on Blonde or Bringing it All Back Home, his powers undiminished by cigarettes & time, then you will leave disappointed...The encore - the almost inevitable Like a Rolling Stone - was the one song where Dylan's discipline slipped & he strained to sing like his younger self...Both old & young fans were happy to assist as his voice was left horribly exposed by the rousing melody". I think that the change in the way he sang his old songs, combined with his complete lack of 'performance', and coupled with all the hype surrounding his set was what made it fall a little short of expectations. Which was a shame, but at the same time it was pretty interesting to have seen him live, as it were.& not forgetting, he is 69! 

The rest of my trip consisted of another night in the tent(!), the train back to Waterloo & a mini trip along the South Bank where The London Literature Festival was taking place! A lovely surprise. The boys had some drinks & I purchased a second hand book (A Million Little Pieces in case you were wondering - a book I had previously bought a couple of years ago, read, loved, lent out to a friend & haven't seen since! Highly recommend it). 

I then returned home & had the longest & possibly best shower I've had in ages! & to top it off, someone at work said I looked tanned today! Which, if you know me, is quite an achievement! Ha. All in all, a laaavely weekend!

Now to start making plans for Camp Bestival over my birthday weekend! But more on that in another post. 

xo

Audrey Hepburn's favorite poem.

Unending Love.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age-old pain,

It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:

You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.

At the heart of time, love of one for another.

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –

And the songs of every poet past and forever.

— Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, written in 1890).

Well I never...

Over the past few days I've been thinking about it, & the time has come (as the walrus said), to start applying for (media-based-preferably within PR) internships!
 This means that today I'll be re-looking at my CV, crafting an interesting, yet informative cover letter (I hope!) & applying to anything that looks interesting!
 Although, because the competition is bound to be pretty tough, I think I'm going to have to come up with a more creative way of marketing myself, AKA not using the standard CV format...This will inevitably lead to several spider diagrams!  
 All the thinking I've been doing about applying for internships & shizzle has, in turn, led me to thinking about what to wear to interviews, etc...

If I had a decent wage (*sigh*), I would fully be clicking 'buy' on this right now! & maybe this one... but I'm not sure if it's a little too messy? I suppose it would depend on what the company was like. But I really do love a nice dress - it's so effortless to create a 'look', yet can seem really put-together & professional. Laaavely!

Oh! Something else I decided to blog about today, was inspired by an old women who came into work - she had the most lovely, old-fashioned voice, that really reminded me of old movie stars such as Audrey Hepburn. 

 And! I've just found out from Wikipedia, she recorded a spoken-word CD in 1992 featuring classic children's stories. It sounds amazing! Almost as good as being read a story by Stephen Fry;

 Just reading about Audrey on Wikipedia is making me want to rent all of her other films (the only one I've seen so far was Breckfast at Tiffany's).
I suppose, until then, I will have to make-do with a book I've borrowed from Lyzz, by Stephen Fry called The Liar. Will let you know my thoughts on the book soon!

xo 

Asher Roth

One more swift Youtube video - it's Asher Roth doing a Radio 1 live lounge version of his single "I love college".
I think the best part is just how much he's smiling throughout the whole thing! Cute.




xo

Example/Ke$ha.

It's terrible - over the past few days, I keep thinking of things to blog about, but haven't been near my computer, or have just been doing other things! So, I've been (slightly genius-ly) making notes on my phone :)
So I think I'll put them in separate posts, to make things easier...
Anyways;
Firstly was something I came across on youtube;


It's Example covering Ke$ha's Tic Tok in the Radio 1 Live Lounge, which I thought was pretty ace!
Although it's embarrassing to admit, I quite like the original, but this version is a really nice contrast.

xo

Plans & Such.

Found out a minute ago, we will spend (on average) 25 years of our life asleep. 7% of this we spend dreaming.
That's just under two years of our lives spent in dream land...or, if I'm counting myself, it's probably a hellofa lot more than that, given to the amount of time I spend daydreaming! Ha.

I reckon this would be a fun dream;

Anyways...what else have I been up to, I hear you ask! I've now been at my new job for two whole weeks! I'm working at Office, in London & it's pretty sweet! Just waiting to be paid so that I can start (ab)using my staff discount!
These are the ones I've currently got my beady eyes on:

For play -

For work - 

Laaavely! 

In other news, Lyzz (who is living with me at the moment - beautiful times!) & I have seen rather a lot of Elephants! 

Lyzz with an elephant outside Harrods.

& inside Selfridges.

Nothing else too major to report...apart from when Lyzz & I were at Danni's flat a couple of nights ago, Danni started drawing in Lyzz's foot...long story short, she drew the most amazing picture on one of my feet, & as soon as I have some money to my name (probably August time I reckon) I'm going to have it (or something very similar) tattooed! Very exciting(!)

Danni did illustration at uni & if you like, you can see more of her work here: coroflot.com/daniellecurtis

xo